The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-19
AHEAD OF TIE RECORD.
TIT HOTTEST DAY THE SIGNAL
SERVICE EVER REPORTED.


the List--Sights and Scenes in Various
Quarters of the City - Houses
Deserted and Streets and Lanes
Turned Into Bedrooms-Th Indica-
tions More Encouraging.
Tie report shows that yesterday was the
warrnest day that has ever been known i'll
Savannah since the Signal Service has been
established, The Thermometer rose G-l0'
higher than on Sunday reaching 10l.O'.
The continuance of The extreme heat for two
days made it all the more unbearable, as the
walls and pavements.had become charged,
and radiated and reelected almost as much
heat as was thrown out by the sun. The
day was not only disagroeable but it
caused any amount of absolute suffering.
Ti,se who were compelled to work lily bore
the extreme warmth and sultriness of
the atmosphere and retired, worn out and
exhausted, to beds where no rest
awaited them But little eXertion was
required TO throw one into a state of
great discomfort and the wonder is that
many of the lanorerS whose hard work is
sufficient to warm them when it is cold did
not sucoumb to the extraordinary conditions
under which they were compelled to toll.
THREE MORE sUNsTRoKEs.
Yesterday added three to the number who
have fallen victims to the suns rays, Mr..
Franz Randenaur and Mr.. Jerry O'Leary
Mr.. Randenaur, who is a brother-in-law of
Mr.. George Deter, has been sick with
fever for some time past, and only
week ago did he sufficiently recover
to arise from his bed. For sew ral days
he has been walking about but yesterday
morning be started from the house for a
stroll and had only taken few steps when
he fell He was carried to his bed and died
I'm few minutes. He has been living with
Mr.. Deter, at whose farm he died
The other case was that OF
Jerry O'Leary, a young man who worked
for the Vale Royal Manufacturing Com
pany. He was coming home from work
about o'clock in the evening, and just rs
he reached the Goodwin pasture, between
the works and the city he was overcome
by the heat and fell to the ground.
Some men who saw him placed
HIM IN wagon and drove mm to
his home on Purse street, between
Jones and Sims. He Is not dead and his
condition last night was such as to give rise
to the hope that he would recover. Observer
Hammer, of the Signal Service, was partial
1y overcome in his office, but he retained
sufficient strength to administer restoratives
to himself, and at midnight he was only
feeling little the worse for his stroke.
LABORERs QUITTING WORK.
The longshoremen who We're loading rosin
and turpentine at the Savannah, Florida
and Western wharves yesterday morning
refused to go to work. They did not go on
another strike, but they said that the day
was too hot to roll barrels i'll the sun and
stow them away in a ships hold, and the
captain did not disagree with them, for a
warmer place than the wharves, where the
sun beat down unobstructed, and the river
reflected its rays could scarcely be found
The Vale Royal Lumber Works closed at
b:30 o'clock because the men were suffering
too intensely from the hot air within the
building. The low roofs and the running of
the machinery adding to the sultriness of
the atmosphere made labor almost unendur-
able On the buildings that are going up
in different parts of the city the carpenters
and masons stuck to their work though
they did so only by determined effort
The nod carriers could not work steadily
They would carry up few loads of brick
or mortar then sit in the shade of the walls
and fan themselves for half an hour.
INsUFFERABLE NIGHTS.
The warm days would be easier to bear if
the cool nights to which Savannah is accus-
toned had not given away to nights of
warmth and the breezes to dead Gains
Scarcely a breath on air stirred
Sunday night, and last night the
wind blew in uncertain and
fitful gusts Sleep was almost out of the
question, and if one did sink into a restless
slumber it was only to awaken to find ones
self in a prOfuse perspiration, hot weary
and as tired as if a days work had been
done. The sights that were seen in various
parts of the city were strange to look upon.
From dark until or 4 o'clock in the
morning men, women and children
could be seen in almost every square
as If another earthquake were impending
The green in South Broad street held many
one after midnight whose Youthful ewes
are wont to close long before the wee sna'
hours" usher in the new day, but these
scenes were mild compared with those
enacted in Yamacraw, Olive street, Cooper
Shop lane, the Old Fort, and similar locali-
ties.
WEIRD AND UNCANNY SIGHTS.
There the negr oes were stretched out on
the sidewalks in light and airy costumes
that certainly did not obstruct the passage
of whatever breeze might be blowing
Families spread quilts upon the pavements
and slept there before the door of their
homes instead of seeking the shelter of the
rooftree. Hundreds of them did not
try TO sleep They sat upon
boxes, barrels and chairs at the corners, in
the alleys and lanes-everywhere and any
where-and spent the night chatting and
rushing an occasional GROWER for iced beer
to quench their thirst. There was more
animation there than one is won't
to see in the early morning hour
even in those spots, and they were strange
and sometimes weird sights, too, but there
was no help for it, because to return to the
low, close novels in which these people live
was only to seek out the hottest place that
could be found.
THE WEATHER STATISTICS.
The average temperature of Savannah
yesterday was So, and the Thermometer had
reached 101.6' and was not thinking of
stopping when a wind storm came up and
drove the mercury back IS in fifteen
minutes. There was a reaction from that,
however, and the night was quite as uncom-
Portable as the preceding one. The coolest
place in the cotton district was
Alapaha, where the maximum was 90
At Smithville it was 1867, and the average
for the cotton district was 1927. The Sig
nal Service began the use of the new code
yesterday, but the southeastern re
ports had TO DC sent by the
old code, for the new one does
rot provide for such temperatures as this
section is reporting now The outlook is
Tor cooler weather to-day The
Worth and Northwest is ENJOYING
heste. weather, and the limo that
marks 20 and below. sweeps from
Chicago down below Cincinnati and off TO
the East. Atlanta reported more than an
inch of rain Yesterday, but that WIS the